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Book ReviewsAn Irish Country Childhood: Memories of a Bygone Age (Thorndike Large Print Basic Series) |
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Book: An Irish Country Childhood: Memories of a Bygone Age (Thorndike Large Print Basic Series)
Written by: Marrie Walsh |
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Average Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5
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A country life classic
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5 / 5
Reading this book recently allowed me to discover a worthy successor to Flora Thompson's "Lark Rise to Candleford". Which to my mind stands as the classic textured literary time machine, that allows the reader to taste, touch, hear & smell a bygone era in full measure. Marrie Walsh has created a minor masterpiece with her (first?) book. Not only will those devotees of the country life memoirs find similarities with Thompson, but also touches of Miss Read as well as WB Yeats and Thomas Hardy here. The bitter as well as the sweet with a magical touch of folklife for good measure. Highly recommended. And may we see many more works from Ms Walsh's pen.
Nostalgic and fun
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5 / 5
This is a marvelous little book recounting a childhood in Ireland. It is eminently readable and will transport you to a simpler world for a few hours.
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